The last desk is about within the 2024 World Poker Tour Choctaw $3,800 buy-in no-limit maintain’em fundamental occasion. After two beginning flights and three extra days of motion, the sphere of 608 entries has been narrowed down to simply six contenders, together with three prior WPT fundamental occasion winners.
Action was halted on Monday, May 6 after the elimination of Vladyslav Shovkovyi in seventh place ($58,000). The remaining gamers bagged up their chips, with motion set to renew on May thirtieth on the HyperX Arena positioned in Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The last six have all locked up no less than $75,000 from the $2,110,500
prize pool by making it this far. The champion will earn $361,600 for the win, and have their identify added to the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup.
The chip chief is James Mackey with 10,550,000. The 2016 winner of this very occasion will return with 84 large blinds when play resumes with 34:20 left in degree 28, with blinds of 75,000-125,000 and an enormous blind ante of 125,000. The bracelet winner from Kansas City will likely be on the lookout for his second WPT title, with a shot at rising his profession match earnings to almost $5 million with a win on this occasion.
Alaska’s Adam Hendrix bagged up the second largest stack with 8,775,000 (70 large blinds). While he has greater than $6.4 million in profession earnings to his identify, together with $431,000 in prior WPT cashes, he will likely be going for his first win on this tour.
Sebastien Aube’s 3,600,000 (29 large blinds) places him in third chip place. The bracelet winner from Canada has greater than $553,000 in prior cashes, with $499,636 of that coming from his title run within the 2022 $2,500 no-limit maintain’em occasion on the World Series of Poker.
Three-time WPT champion Eric Afriat has an opportunity to tie the tour’s present title chief Darren Elias at 4 wins. The Montreal native sits with 2,875,000 (23 large blinds).
Afriat scored his first WPT title again in 2014 by taking down the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown for $1,081,184. His second victory got here virtually 4 years later within the 2018 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open for $651,928. After ready one other 4 years, he took down the 2020 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic to finish the hat trick, incomes one other $394,120 within the course of. He now has greater than $5.3 million in lifetime cashes, with over $3.2 million coming from his success on this tour.
The second shortest stack belongs to Danny Marx ( 2,375,000 – 19 large blinds). Marx isn’t any stranger to profitable large occasions at Choctaw Casino & Resort-Durant, as he gained the 2022 WSOP Circuit fundamental occasion on the venue for a career-best payday of $246,820. He’ll have a shot at an excellent bigger payday when play resumes.
Rounding out the ultimate desk is two-time bracelet winner and two-time WPT champion Erick Lindgren. The 2003 Ultimate Poker Classic and 2004 CelebrationPoker Million III winner has greater than $10.2 million in lifetime earnings, however has not recorded a six-figure match rating since 2014. He enters this last desk with 1,975,000, or 16 large blinds.
This match featured a $2 million assure, which was surpassed by over $110,000. Plenty of huge names ran deep, solely to hit the rail in need of the ultimate desk. Among them have been Nick Pupillo (18th), three-time WPT champion and four-time bracelet winner Anthony Zinno (fifteenth), bracelet winner Larry Wright (14th), Kurt Cohlberg (eleventh), and two-time WPT champion James Carroll (tenth).
Here is a take a look at the chip counts for the ultimate six:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | James Mackey | 10,550,000 |
| 2 | Adam Hendrix | 8,775,000 |
| 3 | Sebastien Aube | 3,600,000 |
| 4 | Eric Afriat | 2,875,000 |
| 5 | Danny Marx | 2,375,000 |
| 6 | Erick Lindgren | 1,975,000 |
The remaining payouts are as follows:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $361,600 |
| 2 | $235,000 |
| 3 | $175,000 |
| 4 | $131,000 |
| 5 | $99,000 |
| 6 | $75,000 |
Photo credit: WPT / Enrique Malfavon.
